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Where is South Bend?

South Bend is located in northern Indiana and is the county seat of St. Joseph County.

Incorporated in 1865, the city's name comes from its position on the southernmost bend of the St. Joseph River.

What is the population of South Bend?

According to the latest U.S. Census data, South Bend has an estimate population of 102,245. That makes it the fourth-largest city in Indiana, just behind Evansville and ahead of Carmel.

Tell me about South Bend's demographics

Census data has South Bend as 63.1 percent White, 26.4 percent Black, 14.4 percent Hispanic and 1.4 percent Asian. Citizens who are two or more races make up 4.2 percent of the population, and all other races are listed as unread 1 percent of the population.

What's its claim to fame?

While technically located north of the city in an unincorporated community that bears its name, South Bend is widely regarded as the home of the University of Notre Dame and its roughly 13,700 students and faculty.

What are its main industries?

South Bend is a city known for education, health care and manufacturing. According to South Bend Region Economic Development, the city's top five employers are University of Notre Dame, Beacon Health System, South Bend Community Schools, St. Joseph Health System and Indiana University South Bend.

Large manufacturers in South Bend include auto manufacturer AM General, and aviation manufacturer Honeywell Aerospace.

A Native American tribe, the Potawatomi, also operates the Four Winds casino along the highway which generates millions of dollars for the city annually.

What about South Bend sports teams?

South Bend is home to the South Bend Cubs minor league baseball team. The team, which has been affiliated with the Chicago Cubs since 2014, plays at Four Winds Field at Coveleski Stadium in downtown South Bend.

Before that, the team was an Arizona Diamondbacks affiliate called the South Bend Silver Hawks.

The city also hosts the South Bend Roller Girls, a nonprofit flat-track roller derby league; and the East Race Waterway; which was the nation's first artificial whitewater center.

What has Mayor Pete done in his time leading the city?

Still reeling from the loss of hometown automaker Studebaker in the early 1960s, Buttigieg focused on lowering unemployment and breathing new life into the community. In 2013, he vowed to tackle blight by demolishing or repairing 1,000 homes in 1,000 days. By September 2015, the city had taken action on 1,122 properties.

But critics said that in an effort to meet that aggressive deadline, the city was too quick to fine homeowners in in poorer, often African-American or Hispanic neighborhoods. There is also fear of gentrification among some as the city works to revamp and rebuild.

But Buttigieg has been credited for bringing the once-dead downtown area back to life with tens of millions of dollars invested into the area. The unemployment rate has dropped from 11.8 percent when Buttigieg was elected to 4.1 percent this year. Many of those new jobs are downtown.

His administration has also cost the city millions of dollars as it remains embroiled in the city's most expensive court battle ever. The city has spent $2 million in court fees and legal settlements over a police phone-tapping incident that's still before the courts.

During his first year in office, Buttigieg learned the police department had been recording the conversations of some police officers without their consent. And, he said, the police chief was using those recordings to his advantage. Buttigieg demoted the chief and fired the department's communications director as a result.

The Buttigieg administration is now fighting the release of the illegally made recordings of police officers' phone conversations that news reports have described as racially charged. The former chief, who was the city's first African-American police chief, was said to be the subject of racist comment made by high-rankiong officers on the recordings.